Hadith 34

enerous, youths, vibrant, bettering for the world and the Hereafter’. He said, ‘How did you leave the companions of Ali-asws behind as? ’ He said, ‘I left them and Ali-asws was between them like the moon and they were like the stars. If he-asws instructs them, they rush, and if he-asws forbids them, they abstain’. He said to him, ‘O Bedouin! I don’t think with the subject of Ali-asws, there is any more learned than you’. He said, ‘Woe be unto you! Seek Forgiveness of your Lord and Fast for a year as a penance of what you said. How would it be if you were to see the eloquent, the teachers, the speakers, and fall into the ocean of their knowledge? You will drown, O wretched! ’
He said, ‘Woe be to your mother! ’ He said, ‘But, beatitude be for her as she gave birth to a Momin, a hypocrite like you is leering at her’. He said to him, ‘O Bedouin! Is it okay for you to be awarded by me? ’ He said, ‘I see (look forward to) reduction in your soul (life), so how can I not see reduction of your wealth? ’ He ordered for him with a hundred thousand Dirhams. He said, ‘Shall I increase for you, O Bedouin? ’ He said, ‘A plugged hand is a hand blocked forever’. So, he ordered with another hundred thousand. He said, ‘Third it, for Allah-azwj is an Individual, then thrice it’. He said, ‘Now, what are you saying? ’ He said, ‘I praise Allah-azwj and condemn you’. He said, ‘And why? Woe be unto you! ’
He said, ‘Because there neither happens to be any inheritance for you nor for your father. But rather, it is from the public treasury of the Muslims, you are giving it’. Then Muawiya turned towards his scribe and said, ‘Write an answer for the Bedouin, for there is no strength for us with him’. He wrote, ‘As for after, O Ali-asws! I shall be diverting toward you forty loads of mustard, with each mustard would be a thousand fighters, drinking (the rivers) Tigris and quenching the Euphrates’. When Al-Tirmah looked and what the scribe had written with, he turned towards Muawiya. He said, ‘Disgrace be for you, O Muawiya! I don’t know which one of you two is of less shame, you or your scribe. Woe be unto you! Even if the Jinn and the humans, and the people of the Psalms, and the Furqan were to gather, they would not speak with what you have said’. He said, ‘And what has he written about my affair? ’ He said, ‘If he has not written on behalf of your instructions, so he has weakened you in your authority, and if his writing was with your instructions, so he has shamed for you from the lies. From which of these will you offer excuses, and from which of them will you be excused? But, for Ali-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws, there is a rooster he-asws acquired anew, fresh. It picks up the mustard seeds along with its army and collect it in its craw’. He said, ‘And who is that (rooster), O Bedouin? ’ He said, ‘That is Malik Bin Al-Haris Al-Ashtar’. Then he took the letter and the award, and went with it to Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. Muawiya turned to his companions. He said, ‘We view, if you were all to dedicate yourselves in all what his companion dedicates with, you will not be (able to) deliver on my behalf a tenth of a tenth of what this one has delivered from his companion’’. [140]